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Memorials and Memory on a French Quarter Dog Walk
My wife and I, along with our spunky mutt Mouton (named after General Jean-Jacques-Alfred- Alexandre Mouton), spent the week before Christmas 2021 in New Orleans. My younger sister got married that week and we were sure to not miss out. … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Monuments
Tagged Andrew Jackson, Battle of Liberty Place, Beauregard Monument, Benjamin Butler, David Farragut, Fall of New Orleans, Faubourg Marigny, French Quarter, Homer Plessy, Jean-Jacques-Alfred-Alexandre Mouton, Jefferson Davis statue, New Orleans, Plessy v. Ferguson, Robert E. Lee statue, Slave trade, Solomon Northup, Washington Artillery, William Mumford
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On Monuments, America Must Never Surrender to Confederates, Old or New (part two)
part two of four ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Frank J. Scaturro. Frank is president of the Grant Monument Association and the author of President Grant Reconsidered and The Supreme Court’s Retreat from Reconstruction. He is currently writing a book … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, Reconstruction
Tagged Amos Akerman, Battle of Liberty Place, Confederate Flag, Confederate monuments, Counter Reconstruction, Dukes of Hazzard, Edward White, Emancipation Memorial, Frank J. Scaturro, Hamburg Massacre, Jim Crow, King George III statue, KKK, Lost Cause, military bases, Nancy Pelosi, On-Monuments-Never-Surrender-to-Confederates
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Echoes of the Reconstruction Era: October 2020
ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. The White League was one of the largest and most dangerous of the Reconstruction Era militias. It embraced the worldview of the Ku Klux Klan, without the funny robes … Continue reading
Monumental Discussion: Matt Stanley
Part of being an historian is changing your conclusions in light of new evidence. Just days ago, on the anniversary of the U.S. dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, I explained to a colleague how my views on the … Continue reading
